Abd al-Wahhab al-Kayyali

Abd al-Wahhab al-Kayyali (died 1981) was Secretary-General of the Arab Liberation Front from 1972 to 1974 and a member of the PLO executive council from January 1973 to 1981.

Biography
Abd al-Wahhab al-Kayyali was born in Palestine, and he sought refuge in Ba'athist Iraq during the Nakba exodus of the Palestinians in 1948-49. The Iraqi president, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, founded the Arab Liberation Front as a Ba'athist Palestinian militant group, and al-Kayyali served as the group's Secretary-General from 1972 to 1974; in January 1973, he was admitted to the PLO executive council. In 1981, al-Kayyali was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon at the time of the Lebanese Civil War (just a year before the Israeli invasion); whether his death was at the hands of the Mossad, a Lebanese militia, or a rival Palestinian group is unknown.